'The Well-Diggers Daughter'

Jay Bobbin

Celebrated French actor Daniel Auteuil (Jean de Florette,” “Manon of the Spring”) also serves as director and screenwriter in this take on the Marcel Pagnol screen classic, in which Auteuil casts himself as a widower struggling to furnish good lives for his six daughters.

His plan goes off course when the eldest of the siblings (Astrid Berges-Frisbey) becomes pregnant by a pilot (Nicolas Duvauchelle) who soon goes off to serve in World War I, first dividing and later uniting the two families. *** (Not rated: AS) (Also on Blu-ray)